Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-05-25
MistelIalteul1s &eadina.
THE GEORGIA ELECTRIC WE'LL.

Two Edgefield men, Mr.. d. II. Grice,
5of our town, and Mr.. Brooks Lewis,
of Johnston, have returned home
lately from the famous electric we'll
in Georgia. Both of them are strong
ibelievers--as is also Maj. Abram
Jones, of Trenton-in its peculiar
curative qualities and effects. Mr..
Grice's account Of the pit, the sur
rounding, and the general mod,ts OPP
.erandi, is interesting. Messrs. Grice
and Lewis went through the coun-
try-about 70 miles-in a buggy
from Edgefield, across Ferguson's
Ferry, to Lincolnton, Ga; thence,
20 miles further, to Washington;
and thence, 9 or 10 miles southwark,
to the pit. A Baptist preacher-who
has not preached since he has been
running the pit-oWns here body
of % hundred acres of land. On it
Is small but decided mountain.
Very near the foot of the mountain.
sfr. Hillman was digging for gold.
One of the labOrers, victim OF rheu-
matism, with certain limbs terribly
drawn and distorted, felt very singu-
lar tingling sensations, and quickly
experienced wonderful relief. Itwas
this that led to the pit in its present
stateand form. Mr.. Hillman dug his
gulch into a cellar 10 feet deep and 8
feet square. A small and rude house
stands over it and a flight of rough
and narrow steps leads to the bottom,
and the descensus dye1ni is not tucihS.
The invalids sit on hard, plain, arm
less chairs. There is no enterprise,
no beauty, no comfort. 1t is too
dark in the pit to read; consequent
ly the rickety people, when they get
seated, have no resource but conver-
sation. Not even gossip; because
thus far there is nobody to gossip
about. You pay 81 for sitting three
hours. AS you sit on your comfort
less chair, your feet rest upon the
electric earth. You soon feel the
tingling sensation in your feet, and it
gradually creeps upward and per-
vades the body. If you wish to hur-
ry up the thing, you place your hands
flat against the bare walls. When
you have tingled out your three hours
and your dollar, you feel quite ex-
hausted, and your eyelids are strange
ly affected. They become some
what sore, and so heavy that they
fall together despite of you. In one
corner of the pit is a we'll, the water
of which is of decidedly peculiar but
quite pleasant taste. Mr.. Grice
brought us a quart bottle of this wa
ter. We drank it off without stop
ping, and expected to tingle tumul-
tuouSly ; but to our extreme humili-
alton we tingle not at all. Mr..
Brooks Lewis, who is young and
handsome and rosy, had had a spell
of fever. Consequently he only
drank the water. But MIR. Crice,
long painfully afflicted with rheuma-
tism, incubated faithfully in the pit
for five days. The settlement at the
pit is as follows: The pit itself;
another rude hut in which human
rheulnatics may take shelter from
rain or cyclone; cloth tent in which
a photographer is tingling it; and
another cloth tent in which very
poor family of rheumatics are rough
ing it. The mountain rising up be-
hind the pit is bare of underground,
but has large trees. There is no hotel.
and you must lodge in farm houses
on the other side of the mountain.
At these you are made quite comfort
able. Near the foot of the mountain,
on the inhabited side, runs railroad,
and there is depot somewhere in
the region. Mr.. Hillman is neither
enterpriAng, nor systematic, nor
particular. He exercises but little
supervision and when you 90 to
pay him for your sittings, he takes
your word in the matter, and asks
no questions. Mr.. Grice believes
that he has been materially benefit
ted and strengthened-and desrribes
his improvement in very intelli-
gent and convincing manner. He
also tells of some very wonderful
cures. This is a long tale, but we
have written it in the cause of suffer-
ing humanity. Who knows but that
the case of the impotent man in the
New Testament, who was let down
through the roof of the house into the
pool may be equaled in these latter
Georgia days !-EdgeteM Chronicle.